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Originally Posted by Roof-Daddy
I try to forget what Button did amd take him seriously, but I can't. We could have had a decade of prime Iggy, Savard and St.Louis on the Flames if not for his buffoonery.
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In his defense that was in the era of clutch and grab hockey where small guys didn't get a lot of space and the Flames had Fleury and Corey Millen for a couple of seasons which probably made it tough to bring up another really small guy in St. Louis. The season after Millen was gone he did get over 60 games in the next two seasons and his game wasn't translating from the AHL with the Flames. While the Savard trade was pure idiocy I have a tough time being overly critical of him for this one as I feel St. Louis went to a perfect place in Tampa as I feel if a lot of other teams picked him up he would have toiled between the NHL and the AHL for the rest of his career not getting a full shake.